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Daily Inspiration Quote by Imelda Marcos

"I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical!"

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A masterclass in self-mythologizing, this is Imelda Marcos taking a potential liability - incoherence - and laundering it into a personality brand. “Synergistically” is the tell: corporate-speak deployed as perfume, a word that sounds modern, managerial, and vaguely scientific while meaning almost nothing in the mouth of someone defending her own narrative. It’s not an argument; it’s an aesthetic.

The pivot from “different” to “not very logical” works because it preempts critique. If you’re expecting evidence, she’s already framed that expectation as quaintly “linear.” The subtext is: don’t judge me by your rules; my reality operates on a higher, more intuitive plane. For a public figure whose life has been shadowed by allegations of extravagance and kleptocracy, that move is strategic. When the record is concrete - shoes, jewels, palaces, the brutal arithmetic of political power - you claim to live somewhere more abstract, where accountability can’t quite get a grip.

Calling her a “celebrity” matters here. Marcos is not only a political spouse but a media object, someone who turned visibility into authority. “I think synergistically” sounds like the language of a grand hostess arranging people, money, and spectacle into a seamless tableau. It recasts opportunism as creativity, contradiction as complexity. Even the confession “I’m not very logical” is disarming: it asks to be read as charming candor rather than a warning label. The line’s real intent is control - not of facts, but of how facts feel.

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Marcos, Imelda. (2026, February 18). I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-a-different-way-of-thinking-i-think-61682/

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Marcos, Imelda. "I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical!" FixQuotes. February 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-a-different-way-of-thinking-i-think-61682/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical!" FixQuotes, 18 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-a-different-way-of-thinking-i-think-61682/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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Imelda Marcos (born July 1, 1930) is a Celebrity from Philippines.

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